A GameBoy emulator written in C++. This project was developed for the "Emulation and virtualization" course at University of Pisa.
It works on Linux and Windows platforms.
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Pandocs specification. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About GAMEBOY - link
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Very useful video about the gameboy - link
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Table for correct instruction opcodes and CPU cycles - link
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GameBoy manual - link
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Useful developing control flow of the emulator - link
- Useful tool to evaluate the correctness of the emulator - link
- Test roms for instructions debugging. (Already present in /roms/individual directory) - link.
| Gameboy | Emulator |
|---|---|
| A | a |
| B | s |
| UP | up key |
| DOWN | down key |
| LEFT | left key |
| RIGHT | right key |
| START | space bar |
| SELECT | b |
| SHUTDOWN | q |
- tetris
- battle city
- shangay
- Dr.Mario (only some sprites move too fast, but fully playable)
- harmony
- serpent
- Q Billion
- space invaders is too fast
- pop up is a bit slow
- Implement ROM and RAM banking to support ROMs larger than 32kB
- Implement sound emulation
- Try new games
- Find new bugs
It requires SDL_2 library for graphic, timing, and inputs from keyboard - link
For Windows users this library is already present in the ./SDL2 folder of this project
For Linux users:
- Using apt-get
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev - From source. Then
./configure,make allandsudo make install
run make gameboy from both Linux and Windows inside the main directory
Put the rom in the roms folder.
Move to the GBpp-Emulator folder, then ./gameboy gameboy_rom.gb for Linux or .\gameboy.exe gameboy_rom.gb for Windows
Fabio Condomitti - @fcondo
Alessandro Noferi - @linofex